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Meeting with Karim Kattan
Culture · Saturday, November 14 · 18:00 · Bordeaux
10-12 place des Capucins, 33800 Bordeaux
Meeting with Karim Kattan, Karim Kattan was born in Jerusalem in 1989 and grew up in Bethlehem. Rich from various cultures, he oscillates between realism and wonder and borrows from orality to better give meaning to the freedom of tone, humor and tenderness as a bonus. A committed writer, Karim Kattan makes the choice of fiction to tell the genocide in Gaza. His novel Septentrionale unfolds over one night, in a country disappearing under the blows of a war. A man hitchhikes, a woman stops and gives him a ride. As their country explodes and metamorphoses, the two strangers drive in search…
